Parnara

Parnara is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae, the skippers. They are native to Asia, Africa and Australia.

These are small, brown skippers that have thin, translucent spots on their wings.

Species
Species include:


 * Parnara amalia (Semper, [1879])
 * Parnara apostata (Snellen, [1880])
 * P. a. apostata Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, S.Burma, Java, Bali
 * P. a. andra Evans, 1949 Borneo
 * P. a. debdasi Chiba & Eliot, 1991 Nepal
 * P. a. hulsei Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, 1999 South Yunnan
 * Parnara bada (Moore, 1878) – Ceylon swift
 * Parnara batta Evans, 1949 Southeast China
 * Parnara ganga Evans, 1937 – continental swift
 * Parnara guttata (Bremer & Grey, [1852]) – straight swift
 * Parnara kawazoei Chiba & Eliot, 1991 Philippines, Borneo, Sulawesi
 * Parnara monasi (Trimen, 1889) – water watchman
 * Parnara naso (Fabricius, 1798)
 * Parnara ogasawarensis Matsumura, 1906 Bonin Islands (Japan)

Biology
The larvae feed on Gramineae including Bambusa, Oryza, Apluda, Bothriochloa, Colocasia, Imperata, Microstegium, Zea, Saccharum